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Directory Submissions - Why?

Why Not?
Actually, I thought about ending the post there, just to be like some university psych professor trying to quiz you.  You know, like the old urban myth of the student who answered the Psych question “Why?” with “Why not?” and got an A on the test. I’ve yet to see proof.
But really, why not? [...]

How Much Time is Too Much on Social Networks?

I recently read a post about social media possibly being a waste of time over at Makak Media. Their argument was that one can spend countless hours on social media sites trying to drum up traffic to your site, with only spikes of traffic really to show for it (I paraphrase of course). And you [...]

Mahalo, “Thank You” for the Alpha (maybe)

So Mahalo is out in alpha/beta/gamma, and I checked it out today. For those unfamiliar with it, it is a new hybrid search engine. A mixture of web 2.0 look and feel, human edited directory, encyclopedia knockoff, search engine wanna-be, and ego. It looks like any other web 2.0 concoction that designers [...]

Jason Calcanis

It seems as if Jason Calcanis has ticked off the SEO community again. A common occurence for a while that seems to have accelerated since late last year. It just seems to be his goal in life to piss off every SEO that reads any blogs (aka, the entire active SEO community). I [...]

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